QTR-Quadtone RIP

I think you are not alone with this problem Susan. 
I also would like to understand the process as I understand the whys and whens of the Zone System. 
After using lots of ink and paper trying to figure out how to use QTR properly I quit. 
I still read the postings hoping that some day through reading and reading I'll be enlightened ("aha!!!") but am not using this product just now.
I also suspect (after reading their postings) that some people are not using  it efficiently and probably wrong. Just doing "something" with it.

May I join you in your request for a guide **for beginners**?

As a general idea:
For example the Spyder3 Print. They have an AWESOME guide. 
It is very well structured. **You understand what you are doing.**

Something like that, just a .pdf, without the bells and whistles?

Jorge






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From: slcphoto73 <slchapin@...>
To: QuadtoneRIP@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2009 12:42:12 AM
Subject: [QuadtoneRIP] Re: Calibrating for Ultrachrome inks


Please let me butt in here. What is missing, and what I would dearly love to have, is a guide **for beginners** on how and when to calibrate and linearize (and everything else one can do with QTR).

I've used QTR without the calibration/ linearization using Epson inksets, and read what information I can find, and I am quite sure I am not making the best use of the product. Unfortunately all the guides and other howto information I can find are rather sketchy and generally assume you already understand the process and why and when to use it.

Wouldn't someone like to invest an evening in writing up a description newbies can follow? For both Windows and Mac? Please pretty please? 

- susan

--- In QuadtoneRIP@ yahoogroups. com, John Labovitz <johnl@...> wrote:
>
> Can you describe a bit more what problems you're having?  Have you 
> already figured out the ink limits?  Are you just looking to linearize?
> 
> --John
> 
> 
> On 5 Mar 2009, at 3:55 PM, michaeldsji wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to add to my original post:
> >
> > It seems that the 26-page "Quad Tone RIP User Guide" also available 
> > from the QuadtoneRip web site is the most complete guide to the 
> > Calibration and Linearization process. However I find that it is (a) 
> > not Mac-oriented and thus somewhat difficult to translate some of 
> > the steps, and (b) almost 4 years old and maybe not up-to-date with 
> > the current downloads and software/hardware changes.
> >
> > A friend of mine and I spent hours pulling our hair out trying to 
> > work through even printing our first set of calibration prints until 
> > we realized whole pages in the guide could be skipped by just 
> > opening up the Ink Pattern Page in Pshop and using the Print command 
> > to proceed. Ouch!
> >
> > The "Basic Tutorial QuadTone RIP on Mac OS X" guide is very useful 
> > but only covers the printing of an image through Pshop and the 
> > QuadTone driver. It stops short of calibration and linearization.
> >
> > So... I just wanted to append my previous message to let you all 
> > know that I am familiar with these guides but have found them to be 
> > tough to understand and translate, and somewhat of a dead-end for me.
> >
> > Again, thank you for any help and assistance.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------ --------- --------- ------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
>


   


      

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